There was a lot to unpack from this last week, and at times the first sign of rain and cool weather seemed to be the only thing to look forward to. However, we continued to push through the negativity and doubt to find hope through Christ.
Tuesday
we had the chance to teach a couple of great member friends Christian and
Jacob. The first treated us to Smoothie King and the second took us to Texas
Roadhouse. We ate really good that day, and had some really awesome spiritual
feasts with the members as well.
We
didn't have our usual district council on Wednesday since zone conference was
this week, so instead, we uses the day to do a lot of planning and a lot of
street contacting and tracting.
Zone
conference happened on Thursday and of course it was amazing. We talked a lot about building our own faith as well as the faith in our investigators. It
really helped us a lot and answer some of our questions we had for our friends.
Elder Van Wagoner and I went on exchanges that evening and we went to the
Larsons for dinner then to institute. All the YSA loved having him back for the
evening.
The
next morning and afternoon we got to do our food truck service again, and
afterward we exchanged back. In the evening, only a couple youth showed up for
volleyball, so the sisters and us did our best to make it fun for them. Sadly,
Julia texted us in the evening saying she is gonna be shipped off in November,
and since she still hasn't been to church, it'll be extremely difficult to get
her baptized before she leaves.
Saturday
morning we were rushing all over Friendswood and Pearland, trying to get a hold
of a baptismal suit for the sister's baptism. We attended the baptism along with
our friend Patrick, and he made a point of telling everyone how excited he also
was to get baptized soon. We had another lesson with our member Christian that
evening because he had a lot of questions for us so he could help teach his
nonmember friend. Late that night, Patrick texted us that he had some concerns,
along with an article of anti he had found. We scheduled to meet with him
before church so we could answer all his questions.
Sunday
morning, Patrick called and said he'd rather get his questions answered over
the phone, since he didn't feel like he wanted to come to our church anymore. That
was crushing, but he said he'd still like to hang out and come to activities, so
maybe he'll open up as he comes to more and more church events. Church was good
enough to make up for how difficult our friends were being the past couple of
days, and we had a super fun mission prep class to cap off the evening.
We
went to NASA as a district for pday, which was super awesome. I wish I'd gotten
more pictures, but now I have an excuse to go again. We went on a tram tour
which took us around the campus which was super cool. We saw a full-scale
mockup of the ISS where the astronauts train how to navigate the space station,
a couple robots in development that will help the astronauts in space, and
Rocket Park, where some older rockets sit on display, including a full Saturn V
rocket which was used to take astronauts to and from the moon. It was a lot of
fun going there and I'm glad I got the chance to do it as a missionary. That
evening at FHE, my companion and I's team crushed it at pictionary, so that was
cool.
It's
been another really interesting week, lots of highs and lows. It's just the way
being a missionary is and what joys and sorrows come as a servant of the Lord.
I'm grateful for every aspect of it.
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